World leaders celebrate the death of Gaddafi

Government helps kidnappers

In "Kidnapped photojournalist takes aim at Government" from the ABC/AAP, Nigel Brennan reveals the bungling by the Australian Government in trying to free him from his Somali kidnappers.

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" - Love or hate Ronald Reagan, he was spot on with this statement.
Typical of activities that the government gets involved with, this life endangering farce cost ten times more than the original estimate and took five times longer.
It's telling that Brennan's family had to sever ties with government help and involvment in order to get the job done themselves.

Here are some of the key bungles, according to Brennan:

• Final ransom was $US658,000 when the average cost is $US54,000
• Captivity was prolonged to 15 months when 3 months is average
• Stephen Smith was "tardy and eventually dishonest"
• Kevin Rudd was "less than involved"
• A number of DFAT personnel believe that they handled the case incorrectly
• 24/7 monitoring of his family's landline by Australian Federal Police failed to pick up two calls from the kidnappers. Hilariously Brennan was making these calls with a gun to his head ... ah those crazy government officials.

The Senate committee is scheduled to report on it's investigations by November 24 so we'll see if the fox has any meaningful comments on it's inability to guard the henhouse.

Sawdust Allergy

Steve Jobs leaves his mark on Apple

Murderous business as usual in Afghanistan

The following interview with Gareth Porter on The Real News Network gives a useful update and summary on the continuing battle to win the hearts and minds of the Afghani people through Night Raids by JSOC, civilian maiming Predator drone attacks and opportunistically imprisoning civilians.

Those Afghanis just won't roll over and let us scratch their tummies will they?



Remember if you live in one of the following countries participating in the Afghanistan "War(?)" then your government is using your money and your name to murder innocent people and create more generations of terrorists.

United States
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Germany
France
Belgium
Lithuania
Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Italy
Turkey
India
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Romania
Estonia
Finland

Government works hard to solve the unemployment problem

"If you propose that the world is full of bad people then why would you want a monopoly organisation that people can gain control of? If you propose that the world is full of good people then what would you need a monopoly organisation for? If you propose that the world is full of good and bad people then wouldn't the bad people be attracted to the monopoly organisation of force and privilege?"

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Julia Gillard solves climate change.

ABC - Gillard begins carbon tax sell.
Gillard's address to the nation


While a little left leaning the following post gives a very digestible overview of the Carbon Price/Tax deception:

Grog's Gamut: The Carbon Price: The Tim Tams are safe; not sure about hyperbole

What's good for the Gander is no good for the Sheeple

The Washington Times has an editorial titled "One law for us, another for you". It reveals that the California Senate voted (28-8) to exempt itself from gun-control laws that apply to everyone else in California. Additionally it notes some other beauties that they've bestowed upon themselves:

"Exact salaries for state assemblymen and senators are obscured by the use of a “per diem” payment scheme that shelters a significant chunk of income from taxation."

"lawmakers rejected a bill that would have prohibited acceptance of concert and sporting event tickets, gift cards, spa treatments, golf outings and other benefits from lobbyists trying to buy votes."

"select public employees [are allowed] to avoid paying red-light-camera tickets and escape any consequence for using toll roads without paying. The current system grants free rides to politicians, court workers, police officers, city council members, social workers, meter maids and their spouses."

Forget the Red team vs Blue team politics. This is government, again, creating one law for themselves and one law for the tax livestock.

These are the same people that exempt themselves from airport body gropes and have tax livestock funded security allocated after their terms of office. These are the societal parasites that give themselves pay raises while knocking back increases for the sheeple and grant healthcare that is better than the voter ... you know the list is sickeningly long.

It's not about who you vote in, it's about the power you let them steal from you.

Virgins and Whores

Amnesty International has revealed that women protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square (9 Mar 2011) were forced to take virginity tests.

The story is covered in two articles - "Egypt: Admission of forced 'virginity tests' must lead to justice" and "Egyptian women protesters forced to take 'virginity tests' ."

It has also been covered by the Australian ABC in "Egypt must investigate forced virginity tests"

Some (insane?) choice quotes:

"We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place,"

"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,"

"These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs),"

Before the pro-western, pro-christian indignation rises too high, remember that the United States was more than happy to use Egypt for Rendition. This means that allies of the U.S. also support/condone this torture.

These are your leaders using your money and committing these atrocities in your name.

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Bomb Them of course

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